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Book Review: LOVE MINUS EIGHTY by Will McIntosh

Based off the Hugo Award Winning Best Short Story, “Bridesicle,” Love Minus Eighty by Will McIntosh has been on my expect-to-be-wowed list for the last year. I let a friend borrow my copy and his quick review was, good, but definitely a love story. I would say, great and it’s a love story. I am not a Romance reader, but I do enjoy seeing people fall ...

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A Ring Tone for the End of the World – Stephen King’s Machines of Mayhem

Should we fear the rise of robots? The dawn of human/machine fusion is clearly on its way; remarkable advances in technology have led to the creation of self-driving cars, bionic organs, Siri and similar voice-controlled virtual assistants, just to name a few examples. Science fiction is rife with stories exploring the increasingly complicated relationship between man and machine, playing up our fears of a robotic takeover while allowing us ...

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Book Review: THE QUANTUM THIEF and THE FRACTAL PRINCE by Hannu Rajaniemi

The John Le Flambeur series, or at least the two books released so far, are stories for those who love stories. Linguaphiles in particular will be delighted by The Quantum Thief and The Fractal Prince from Hannu Rajaniemi, whose last name takes some practice to say if you’re not a native Finnish speaker. The third, The Causal Angel is ...

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Audiobook Review: THE LIVES OF TAO by Wesley Chu

The Lives of Tao by Wesley Chu has been out and praised by readers for the past year, winning the ALA Alex Award in 2014 and being a Goodreads Finalist for Best Science Fiction in 2013. Many have compared The Lives of Tao to the TV show Chuck because it is also a light hearted tale of an unlikely hero given super spy powers. Where ...

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[Giveaway + Excerpt] – Steven Erikson’s new novella ‘THE WURMS OF BLEARMOUTH’

Tor is pleased to offer this excerpt of Steven Erikson’s new novella in his Malazan Book of the Fallen universe, THE WURMS OF BLEARMOUTH, and 3 copies to our AISFP newsletter subscribers (US only). Sign up by one week from today.

Publication Info:

THE WURMS OF BLEARMOUTH
By Steven Erikson

Tor Books
Hardcover: 978-0-7653-2426-9
$24.99 U.S. | 208 Pages
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SF Book Releases This Week: July 15, 2014

Thanks for stopping by another SF Book Releases This Week. If you are an indie or small press author and would like your book included in this list, email us at adventuresinscifipublishing [at] gmail [dot] com. If you love free books, reviews and podcasts, sign up to our newsletter and be entered in our weekly giveaways.

Rocket Raccoon & Groot: Steal the Galaxy! by Dan Abnett ...

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AISFP Podcast 266 – Max Gladstone, FULL FATHOM FIVE

Timothy C. Ward, author of the novelette, “Scavenger,” joins Tor.com Assistant Editor, Carl Engle-Laird, to interview Max Gladstone about his newest novel, Full Fathom Five: Craft Sequence #3.

On Sale, Tuesday, July 15, Full Fathom Five by Max Gladstone

“Gladstone continues to trump his already considerable accomplishments in this tightly paced fantasy legal thriller.”
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Book Review: HALF A KING by Joe Abercrombie

Joe Abercrombie’s The First Law trilogy came at the cusp ofwhen fantasy was going through achange. Theeighties and nineties fantasy market was dominated with Tolkienesque fantasy.Authors like Terry Brooks, David Eddings, and Robert Jordan brought us hefty series of unlikely heroes saving the world against seemingly unstoppable evils with aclear delineation between good and evil. Then, in 1996, George R. R. Martin published A Game of Thrones, ...

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Graphic Novel Review: THROUGH THE WOODS by Emily Carroll

Through the Woods, stories by Emily Carroll (Out July 15th from Simon & Schuster / Margaret K. McElderry Books).

Graphic novels (in this case a collection of short fairy tale type stories) are not my normal kind of reading, but if they prove as effective and economical in their terror as Through the Woods, I will be grabbing as many as I can. I received ...

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Book Review: WHISPERS FROM THE ABYSS – Lovecraft-inspired anthology edited by 01 Publishing

Anthologies likeWHISPERS FROM THE ABYSSdon’t come around as often as they should. Edited by 01 Publishing’s Kat Rocha, this collection of “Lovecraft-inspired short fiction” is very atypical, for a few reasons.

This collection comes at around 282 pages, not in itself unusual. But consider that this anthology sports a whopping 33 stories. Headlining these is an introduction from Pseudopod’s own Alasdair Stuart. If you’ve ever listened to ...

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